Kimathi Marangu is a recognized expert in loyalty marketing, affiliate marketing and e-commerce. Kimathi has been a contributor to Colloquy, DMNews and MarketingProfs, interviewed by Fox Business News, and quoted in USA Today, BusinessWeek.com, New York Newsday, Red Herring and others.
Prior to co-founding Mall Networks, he ran a consulting business, Seaspray, whose clients include Apple and Teleflora. Kimathi grew Apple's affiliate program into one of the largest in the industry. He also established Apple's U.S. search and comparison shopping partnerships with Google, Yahoo! Shopping, Shopzilla, Overture, Shopping.com and PriceGrabber.
Previously, Kimathi was GM of eCommerce at Schoolpop, an online school fundraising company. There he refined the business model that delivered over $250 million in trackable, multi-channel sales to merchants, raising millions of dollars for schools. He began his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan in New York and Australia. A wildlife conservationist, he has served as Special Assistant to Dr. Richard Leakey at the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Kimathi has his A.B. in Economics from Vassar College and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he is past President of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and Emeritus Member of the Business School Advisory Council.
Marc Caltabiano
About Marc Caltabiano
As Vice President of Marketing, Marc Caltabiano is responsible for product strategy, product management, product marketing, marketing communications, and public relations. Marc brings more than 15 years of product management and product marketing experience in the CRM, self-service, ecommerce, and enterprise search industries. He holds nine patents on search and knowledge management.
Prior to Mall Networks, Marc was the senior director of product management at KNOVA Software, guiding the company's product and positioning strategy, product roadmap, and product and release management. In this role, he was responsible for award-winning and market-changing products and solutions that helped grow the company's revenue by more than 400 percent.
Before KNOVA, Marc served as senior product manager at Siebel Systems for the Call Center and eService products and was a key part of the team that vaulted Siebel's Call Center and eService products into a market leadership position.
Marc started his career with Disco Corporation, a leading Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer, based in Tokyo.
Marc has a B.A. from Williams College and an MBA from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley.
About Mall Networks
Mall Networks is the leading provider of merchant-funded loyalty shopping solutions that increase revenue, strengthen customer loyalty, and improve member engagement for a range of industries including financial services, card issuers, airline and hospitality, affinity organizations and loyalty programs. Featuring an integrated network of more than 700 world-class online and bricks-and-mortar merchants, Mall Networks' multi-channel shopping solutions and flexible, on-demand platform power personalized online and in-store shopping programs for more than 30 million consumers. Industry leaders including JPMorgan Chase, Upromise, Verizon, Shop.org, Spirit Airlines, Virgin, and NASCAR rely on Mall Networks to build loyal, profitable customer relationships.
Merchant-funded online malls and In-Store shopping programs present a huge revenue and loyalty opportunity for companies across all industries that manage:
A loyalty or rewards program
A portfolio of credit card products
Marketing at a bank or credit union
Member benefits for an association
Creative and successful fundraising programs
Mall Networks' private label online shopping portals offer a way for your customers to shop easily and securely at hundreds of name-brand sites through a single point of entry - your web site. Over 500 world-class online merchants and over 100,000 bricks-and-mortar locations are part of our trusted strategic merchant network, granting rewards bonuses and rebate points for every purchase. Your customers and members get to shop at the stores they love while earning extra points and strengthening their ties to your organization.
Founded in 2005, the Mall Networks team brings extensive expertise in operations, sales, marketing and software development, having created and scaled two of the most successful and groundbreaking online malls - Upromise (now part of Sallie Mae) and Schoolpop. Our clients include Chase, NASCAR RacePoints, epilepsy.com, the Good Sam Club, Macworld, and Shop.org's CyberMonday.com, among others.
Mall Networks is a privately held company whose investors include Flybridge Capital Partners (formerly IDG Ventures Boston), Venture Capital Fund of New England and LBO Enterprises. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices in Burlingame, California.
